Inventions

The Birth of the Modern Computer: A Digital Technology Expert‘s Perspective

History of Computers and Computing, The birth of the modern computer So, who invented the computer?(Un)fortunately, there is not a […]

The Sphere 1 was one of the first fully functional all-in-one microcomputers that could be plugged in, turned on, and used immediately.

The Minitel system allowed French citizens to access all kinds of popular online services in the 1980s — long before the internet!

The PDP-1 is the sixth generation minicomputer that employs micro-alloy transistors. It was invented by Benjamin Gurley in 1960.

Text recognition is heavily relied on in modern times. This is made possible thanks to the early Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

At the time (around the middle of the 20th century) when a few people knew the word “computer”, and the […]

The Centigraph is the adding machine that has been around since 1880 when its inventor Arthur Ewing Shattuck applied for a patent.

USENET was one of the first services to provide for many commonly used internet features. Find out more about this creation.

Key Points Humans have always been fascinated by the night sky and, since ancient times, have sought to invent better […]

Created by Charles A. Muench in 1973, the Compucolor 8001 was a first of tis kind. Read on to learn more about the microcomputer.